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Auction archive: Lot number 220

Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, Narcissus Luttrell's copy, [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1620.

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,325 - US$1,988
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 220

Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, Narcissus Luttrell's copy, [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1620.

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,325 - US$1,988
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, printed mostly in black letter, title with ornamental border (slight loss to outer margin through paper flaw), soiled and stained, Narcissus Luttrell's copy with his ink inscription "Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1681/0 Ex dono sororis Kath. Sowe" to front free endpaper, contemporary manuscript notes to rear free endpaper, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rubbed, upper joint split, spine ends chipped, [STC 24390], [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1620; and 5 other copies of the same, three 17th century (1610, 1614, 1630), 4to & 8vo (5) ⁂ All the 17th century editions are scarce: ESTC lists only 2 UK copies of the 1614 edition (BL and this copy) and 5 UK copies of the others. Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), parliamentary historian and diarist, bibliographer of works concerning the Popish plot, and compiler of a large library. Provenance: first mentioned Rothamsted acquisition date 1936.

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2018
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, printed mostly in black letter, title with ornamental border (slight loss to outer margin through paper flaw), soiled and stained, Narcissus Luttrell's copy with his ink inscription "Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1681/0 Ex dono sororis Kath. Sowe" to front free endpaper, contemporary manuscript notes to rear free endpaper, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rubbed, upper joint split, spine ends chipped, [STC 24390], [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1620; and 5 other copies of the same, three 17th century (1610, 1614, 1630), 4to & 8vo (5) ⁂ All the 17th century editions are scarce: ESTC lists only 2 UK copies of the 1614 edition (BL and this copy) and 5 UK copies of the others. Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), parliamentary historian and diarist, bibliographer of works concerning the Popish plot, and compiler of a large library. Provenance: first mentioned Rothamsted acquisition date 1936.

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2018
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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